Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre

'The focus on theatre in many variant forms and contexts in Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation is both fresh and energising. The astutely organised material gives us insight into the creative and collaborative process and serves as critical provocation. In the process of this volume we see adaptation at the heart of the devising, rehearsal and performance contexts and we engage with an impressively wide-ranging, and indeed global, group of theatre directors, companies and audiences in the process. Exploratory and experimental but always political and ethical in its stance on adaptation as a collective labour, this volume provides new frameworks for debate and practice in adaptation studies.' - Julie Sanders, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Newcastle University, UK

'Kara Reilly's carefully crafted and thought-provoking book is a welcome addition to the debate on stage adaptations. The volume captures a wide variety of theatrical and scholarly approaches andis set to become a must-read in the field.' - Margherita Laera, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, University of Kent, UK

This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies. It explores company and directorial approaches to adaptation through analysis of the work of Kneehigh, Mabou Mines, Robert Le Page and Katie Mitchell. It then moves on to look at the transformation of the novel onto the stage in the work of Mitchell, and in The Red Badge of Courage, The Kite Runner, Anne Frank, and Fanny Hill. Next, it examines contemporary radical adaptations of Trojan Women and The Iliad. Finally, it looks at five different approaches to postmodern metatheatrical adaptation in early modern texts of Hamlet, The Changeling, and Faustus, as well as the work of the Neo-Futurists, and the mash-up Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella. Overall, this comprehensive study offers insights into key productions, ideas about approaches to adaptation, and current debates on fidelity, postmodernism and remediation.

Auteur
Kara Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. Her books include Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History (2011) and the edited collection Theatre, Performance and Analogue (2013). She is co-editor of the book series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance with Vicky Angelaki.

Résumé
This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies. It explores company and directorial approaches to adaptation through analysis of the work of Kneehigh, Mabou Mines, Robert Le Page and Katie Mitchell. It then moves on to look at the transformation of the novel onto the stage in the work of Mitchell, and in The Red Badge of Courage, The Kite Runner, Anne Frank, and Fanny Hill. Next, it examines contemporary radical adaptations of Trojan Women and The Iliad. Finally, it looks at five different approaches to postmodern metatheatrical adaptation in early modern texts of Hamlet, The Changeling, and Faustus, as well as the work of the Neo-Futurists, and the mash-up Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella. Overall, this comprehensive study offers insights into key productions, ideas about approaches to adaptation, and current debates on fidelity, postmodernism and remediation.

Contenu

Acknowledgements.- Introduction to Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation, Kara Reilly.- Section I Introduction: Company and Directorial Approaches to Adaptation, Scott Proudfit.- Kneehigh's Retellings, Heather Lilley.- Collective Creation & 'Historical Imagination': Mabou Mines's Devised Adaptations of History, Jessica Brater.- Making Music Visible: Robert Lepage Adapts Aspects of Siegfried Without Shifting a Word, Melissa Poll.- 'The thrill of doing it live': devising and performing Katie Mitchell's international 'live cinema' productions, Adam J. Ledger.- Section 2 Introduction: Re-mediating the Book to the Stage, Frances Babbage.- (Re)Mediating the Modernist Novel: Katie Mitchell's Live Cinema Work, Benjamin Fowler.- The Spirit of the Source: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, Jane Barnette.- Have We Found Anne Frank? A Critical Analysis of Theater Amsterdam's Anne, Samantha Mitschke.- Adapting The Kite Runner: A Fidelity Project to Re-imagine AfghanAura, Edmund Chow.- Fanny Hill Onstage: TheatreState and April De Angelis's feminist adaptations, Kara Reilly.- Section 3 Introduction: Reinscribing the Other in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy and Epic, Eleftheria Ioannidou.- Hypertheatrical Engagement with Euripides' Trojan Women: a female 'writ of habeas corpus', Olga Kekis.- A Tale of Two Jordans: Representing Syrian Refugees Before and After 2011, George Potter.- Homer in Palestine, Gabriel Varghese.- Section 4 Introduction: Postmodern Meta-Theatrical Adaptation, Kimberly Jannarone.- The Neo-Futurists(') Take on Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, Adrian Curtin.- Theatrical Mash-Up: Assembled Text as Adaptation in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Scott Proudfit.- Controversal Intentions: Adaptation as an act of iconoclasm in Rupert Goold and Ben Power's Faustus (2004) and the Chapman Brothers' Insult to Injury (2003), Sarah Grochala.- Multivalence: The Young Vic and a postmodern Changeling, 2012, Nora Williams.- Ensaio.Hamlet:adaptation as rehearsal as essay, Pedro de Senna.- Index.